Jorden Gruden net worth: early life, career, personal life, net worth
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Introduction
Jordan Gruden is a well-known American football head coach. He is best known for being the head coach of the professional football team, Oakland Raiders. Gordon quit his service as a head coach of Raiders in 2021, on the account of some controversial emails. Jordan Gruden’s net worth in 2021 is estimated to be around $30 million.
Early life
Jordan Gruden was born in Sandusky, Ohio, US, on the 17th of August, 1963. He was raised up as a fan of the Cleveland Browns. His father Jim Gruden was also associated with football. Jim has been working as a professional football regional scout, director of player personnel, and quarterbacks coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Gruden has two brothers. One of them is Jay, who played and served as a coach in the Arena Football League.
Regarding his academics, he has studied at Clay High School. After his high school graduation in 1982, he became a part of Muskingum College. He went on studying there for one year, and later he joined the University of Dayton. Gruden got a graduation degree from Dayton University in 1986 with a major in communications.
Career
After his graduation, he started working as an assistant coach at the University of Tennessee. After some time, he widened his work experience by serving as a quarterbacks coach at Southeast Missouri State. Later in 1989, he joined the Univerisity of Pacific as an offensive assistant. Gruden then served as a special assistant for the under quarterbacks coach of San Francisco 49ers, Mike Holmgren.
By the start of 1992, he served as the special offensive assistant/wide receivers coach for the Green Bay Packers. He stayed with the Packers for three years. After that, he joined the Philadelphia Eagles as the offensive coordinator. In 1998, he was appointed as the new head coach for the Oakland Raiders.
After three years, he replaced Tony Dungy as the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. As a result, he signed a 5-year contract with them worth $17.5 million. In 2010, he joined Carrollwood Day School as a volunteer assistant offensive line coach. By the start of 2018, he rejoined the Oakland Raiders and signed a 10-year contract worth $10 million with them. It was one of the massive contracts in the league’s history.
As mentioned earlier, he resigned as the head coach of the Oakland Raiders after the controversial emails were released by the New York Times. According to the league investigation 2021, he used homophobic and misogynist remarks in the emails. Furthermore, he referred to NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell and called him by some obscene names.
In addition to this, he associated Joe Biden with obscene titles as well. Right after the release of these emails, he resigned from his post as the head coach. He stated “I have resigned as Head Coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction. Thank you to all players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation. I’m sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone”.
Personal life
Jordan Gruden tied knots with Cindy Brooks in 1991. They came across each other in 1985 while he was serving as a graduate assistant at the University of Tennessee. Cindy was then a student at university. As of now, they have three sons.
Jordan Gruden net worth
Speaking of his current net worth, he owns around $30 million. As a head coach of Tampa Bay, he earned $4 million per year. Moreover, he has earned a hefty amount of money as an ESPN commentator. Reportedly, he has earned around $6.5 million per year as an ESPN commentator.
